It is a woman who questions her sister working in the government: "Tell me, is it true that you are re-fining the 5?"
"It is a panic advisor who texts:" My minister is on the television sets in an hour, what should he say about confinement, we are accelerating?
"
On Sunday, the laptops heated up at the Ministry of Health after leaks relating to a re-containment for this beginning of the week and an already scheduled speech by Emmanuel Macron.
“It's always the same, every week… we demolish at the Elysee
Palace
,
two weeks ago, all the news channels were already telling us to be
careful we are re-fining
, and it was false.
"
Sunday evening, the message was clear from the executive side: "Nothing is written, we are not Ms. Irma".
But by dint of hearing that confinement is inevitable, the French believe it and stress it out.
Announced Thursday, next week, in two weeks?
The numbers will tell.
“If we see that the virus starts to grow strongly, we close.
We will do it if we have no choice.
The one we put in place in October has been effective.
But I can tell you that there is no hidden plan, or pre-written scenario, ”assured the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, during a meeting with our readers at the end of the week.
Emmanuel Macron is due to chair a new health defense council on Wednesday.
"That day, we will have figures on the health situation and an assessment after fifteen days of general curfew at 6 p.m., this will allow us to know if, for the moment, this is enough to keep the epidemic under control. », Repeats the Elysee.
In addition to the effects of the curfew, the government will also analyze during this meeting a new flash survey on the British variant in order to know in what proportion it circulates on French territory.
If the table shows that the curfew is no longer enough and the variant is everywhere, containment will be inevitable.
If we are not there yet, only the curfew will be maintained.
The stress continues.